Civil Rights Act of 1964

CTL-E-5425 · Policy · 1964-present

VERIFIED evidence grade of this record

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, is the foundational statute of modern American civil rights law. Passed after the longest filibuster in Senate history to that date — broken by cloture on June 10, 1964, the first time the Senate had ever voted to end debate on a civil rights bill — the Act outlawed segregation and discrimination in public accommodations (Title II), barred discrimination in federally assisted programs (Title VI), and prohibited employment discrimination by race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Title VII), creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce it. It answered, in law, the demands carried through Montgomery, Birmingham, the March on Washington, and the Mississippi summer then underway; President Kennedy had called for it in June 1963, eight days after George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, and Johnson drove it through a grieving Congress as Kennedy's memorial. The intake audit flagged an asymmetry this record closes: the graph held a Policy record for the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (CTL-E-1181) but none for the 1964 Act on which it stands.

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• Also known as: Civil Rights Act

Notes

Statistics: Signed July 2, 1964 (National Archives). Cloture: June 10, 1964 — first successful cloture on a civil rights bill (U.S. Senate). The intake paste's stop #26 (July 1964) is VERIFIED. Filed as a Policy, following the Fair Housing Act precedent (CTL-E-1181). · Curator's Judgment: DRAFT — for founder review: The timeline's legislation stops now stand in their proper row: 1964, 1965, 1968 — public accommodations and employment, the ballot, the front door. The record notes the mechanism honestly: this law exists because a movement made the country's ordinary business impossible until it passed. Statutes are receipts; this one itemizes a decade. · Photo slot: CLEARED CANDIDATE — Wikimedia Commons File:Lyndon Johnson signing Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964.jpg, Public domain, license verified from Commons API metadata on 2026-10-15; not downloaded — visual pass follows merge per standing pattern.

Sources

• U.S. Senate, Historical Office, 'Civil Rights Act of 1964' — supports: the June 10, 1964 cloture vote, the filibuster it ended, and the Act's passage history (primary source)
• National Archives, 'Civil Rights Act (1964)' (Milestone Documents) — supports: the July 2, 1964 signing and the Act's principal titles (II, VI, VII) and the EEOC's creation (primary source)
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Civil Rights Act' — supports: the Act's origins in Kennedy's June 1963 proposal and Johnson's stewardship after November 1963

Record CTL-E-5425 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: VERIFIED · 3 sources (2 primary) · CTL research: BCI-001, RELP-001.
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